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Creative Commons and Pictures

We already learned about Public Domain, and the pictures available as part of Public Domain. While you will be able to find a huge amount of visual content that is available within Public Domain, there is another option called Creative Commons that you should be aware of. Unlike Public Domain, where content belongs to all mankind – the content within Creative Commons still belongs to the person who created it. For pictures such as camera photographs, any content classified as Creative Commons would still belong to the photographer or the entity that commissioned the photographer.

Learn about Creative Commons, and the different licenses provided.

Filed Under: Pictures and Visuals
Tagged as: Graphics, Pictures

Gradient Fills for Text in PowerPoint 2013 for Windows

By default, all text that you add within PowerPoint may be filled up with a solid color. And while that’s predictable and good, there are some other options that you may want to explore, especially for title text or anything that uses text in a larger point size. One alternative is text filled with a gradient — this can look contemporary and classic, or even ghastly and gaudy! It all depends on the type of gradients you use to fill your text!

Learn how to add gradient fills to selected text in PowerPoint 2013 for Windows.

Filed Under: PowerPoint 2013
Tagged as: Fills, Gradients, PowerPoint 2013, Text, Tutorials

Clichés: Handshake Pictures for PowerPoint

One of the most clichéd pictures you will find within presentation slides, web sites, and even billboard banners is that of the handshake! There are all sorts of handshake pictures, from those shaking hands between opposite genders to those of handshakes between people of different races and ages. And yet they all seem clichéd! Why is that so? To understand the answer to this question, we have to first understand what a handshake symbolizes.

Learn why using pictures of handshakes is a cliché, and how you can find alternatives.

Filed Under: Clip Media
Tagged as: Clichés, Design, Graphics, Opinion, Pictures, Presentation Skills, Visuals

Learn PowerPoint 2010 for Windows: Adding Clips to the Clip Organizer

Although it is easy to insert pictures from the Clip Art task pane, it is still a good idea to save the pictures you use locally so that you can use them anytime you want. This is important because the same picture may not show up again in the future since nowadays the pictures you retrieve via a search are those that are on web sites — and they use Bing’s search technology. Such searches are dynamic, and results can vary, even after a few hours! So it is important that you save a picture you want to use often locally, in case you want to use it in the future. PowerPoint 2010 allows you to save pictures locally by adding it to a small program called the Clip Organizer.

Learn how to add clips to the Clip Organizer in PowerPoint 2010 for Windows.

Filed Under: PowerPoint 2010
Tagged as: Clip Media, Graphics, PowerPoint 2010, Tutorials

Learn PowerPoint 2013 for Windows: Picture Fills for Text

PowerPoint’s Text Fill gallery provides you with plenty of text fill options which work similar to the fills for shapes within the Shape Fill gallery. However, a basic color fill is not the only option available for text fills in PowerPoint. In this tutorial, we will explore how you can use a picture as a fill for your selected text. Although picture fills can look awesome on text and make it stand apart, you must use some caution.

Learn how to add picture fills to the selected text in PowerPoint 2013 for Windows.

Filed Under: PowerPoint 2013
Tagged as: Fills, PowerPoint 2013, Text, Tutorials